Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio congresswoman, Aug. 20

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio congresswoman, Aug. 20

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Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio congresswoman, Aug. 20 Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a strong critic of the Iraq war, died on Aug. 20 after having a brain hemorrhage, a Cleveland Clinic official said. She was 58. The liberal Democrat, first elected in 1998, suffered the hemorrhage while driving her car, said Dr. Gus Kious, president of Huron Hospital.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio congresswoman, Aug. 20 Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a strong critic of the Iraq war, died on Aug. 20 after having a brain hemorrhage, a Cleveland Clinic official said. She was 58. The liberal Democrat, first elected in 1998, suffered the hemorrhage while driving her car, said Dr. Gus Kious, president of Huron Hospital. (AP/Mark Duncan)

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio congresswoman, Aug. 20 Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a strong critic of the Iraq war, died on Aug. 20 after having a brain hemorrhage, a Cleveland Clinic official said. She was 58. The liberal Democrat, first elected in 1998, suffered the hemorrhage while driving her car, said Dr. Gus Kious, president of Huron Hospital.